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Writing and maintaining CSS for large applications (and large teams) can be challenging. Teams often have trouble with brittle selectors, naming collisions, specificity, and pile-ups of dead code.

After seeing these issues first-hand on large projects, I built Radium: a JavaScript library for styling React applications with inline styles. In the context of a React application, inline styling elegantly solves many of the issues with large-scale CSS. It also gives you the benefits of a CSS preprocessor like Sass, with extra power for expressive styling

In this presentation, we'll compare the benefits of approaches like Radium to some upcoming and proposed additions to the CSS specification that will help make scalable CSS easy in the future, whether you're using React or not. We'll talk about things like:

Alex Lande is a front-end web developer interested in building responsive, accessible, and beautiful web applications of the future at Formidable Labs in Seattle, WA. He's the curator of CascadiaCSS, a CSS conference for the Pacific Northwest, and lead developer of Radium, an open... Read More →